PROJECT GOAL

• To explore the uses of entertainment and educational technology in weapons of mass destruction preparedness training.

• CMU's Entertainment Technology Center
• MIT's Comparative Media Studies program
• Microsoft
• Federation of American Scientists

• FAS document outlines value of a game as a teaching tool for first responders
• FAS envisions an entire suite of games
• Focused our research on firefighters as "deep slice" suggested by MIT's Alex Chisholm at 9/24/02 meeting
• Firefighters are cross-trained, based in a central location (firehouse), and are a good "mental match"
• There is an existing market for firefighter training materials as illusrtated by the Fire and Emergency Training Network (FETN)